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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, February 12

    • After spike in CTA violence, CPD adding 50 officers to trains and platforms March - May (Tribune)
    • Woman, 70, dies after fleeing rear-end crash, crashing a 2nd time in Gurnee (Sun-Times)
    • Ex-CDOT chief Scheinfeld named CEO of Civic Consulting Alliance (Sun-Times)
    • Strategies to help keep new amenities like The 606 from causing housing displacement (NPQ)
    • Here are affordable, transit-friendly neighborhoods you can move to and/or gentrify (Curbed)
    • An update on efforts for more frequent affordable Metra, Meeting this Thursday (Active Trans)
    • Steelworker history bike tour takes place in NW Indiana April 4 and May 2 (NWI.com)

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